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Today’s enterprises rely on networked applications to conduct business. Poorly performing applications result in a loss of business productivity, impacting the bottom line. Yet performance problems with production applications are common, and new application deployments are often delayed, or even fail, due to performance issues.

OPNET’s ACE Analyst provides effective performance management throughout the application life cycle.  ACE Analyst embeds expert knowledge about network protocols and application behavior as seen from a network perspective, providing a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end performance of networked applications. Its powerful, intuitive analysis environment enables application pre-deployment certification, validates planned changes, and accelerates troubleshooting performance problems in production applications.

Key Features

• Unlimited, free, lightweight and secure ACE Capture Agents
• Advanced analysis of network packet traces and key statistics
  
• Coordinated multi-tier captures and trace synchronization
• Continuous capture capability for analysis of intermittent problems
• Intuitive, powerful, graphical diagrams for visualizing application behavior
• Automated diagnostic reports pinpoint performance bottlenecks and summarize sources of response time delay
• Hundreds of protocol and transaction level decodes
• Quick and accurate predictions of application response times in virtual environments encompassing multiple clients, servers, and applications
• Powerful “whiteboard” environment for architecting and validating modifications to complex application-layer logic and behavior, including Web 2.0 applications
• Standardized and professional reports, generated automatically, and easily customized for key stakeholders such as application developers, network engineers, and management
• Centralized agent management and end-user-driven captures, via a web browser, with the ACE Enterprise Management Server

Troubleshoot WAN Optimized Applications
 
ACE Analyst delivers one-of-a kind analysis capabilities for organizations deploying WAN optimization devices from vendors including Riverbed Technology, Cisco Systems, and Juniper Networks. 
 
Although many organizations are widely deploying WAN optimization appliances to improve the performance of their mission-critical applications, the introduction of WAN optimization interferes with the ability of the IT organization to effectively manage application performance on an end-to-end basis. The techniques that are applied by these devices obscure the actual application behavior over the network, making it more difficult to troubleshoot performance problems with traditional transactional analysis tools. ACE Analyst uniquely restores this crucial visibility for import and analysis of packet traces captured across WAN optimized networks. 
 
Restore Network-Tier Visibility:
ACE Analyst provides network-tier visibility, isolating the end-to-end application transaction from other activity that is introduced by the WAN optimization devices, to effectively troubleshoot slow response time.
 
Plan WAN Optimization Deployment: ACE Analyst enables “what-if” predictive analysis for planning, as well as validating proposed fixes to response time problems in WAN optimized environments. It enables organizations to more effectively plan for deploying WAN optimization devices by identifying sites and applications that would likely realize the greatest benefits.